SpaceX just made history and landed a rocket on a ship
SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9 rocket Friday at 4:43 p.m. ET from Cape Canaveral, Florida, sending 7,000 pounds of cargo and an inflatable room toward the International Space Station.But the...
View ArticleHere's why landing a rocket on a ship just might save humanity
Remember this day: Friday, April 8, 2016.It's when SpaceX, a company led by tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, may have pushed the course of human history more rapidly toward the stars.Minutes after SpaceX...
View ArticleElon Musk may reveal his Mars colony plans this fall
Some day, Elon Musk just might land humans on Mars.Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin told Tech Insider that we'll need at least 25 years and cooperation between three rival nations to make it happen....
View ArticleScientists just found a 'hot Jupiter' with 3 suns surprisingly close to Earth
Researchers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics recently discovered that the KELT-4 system doesn't just have one star but three. This is only the forth time researchers have found a...
View ArticleAstronauts on the space station just caught a big Dragon
SpaceX's Dragon supply capsule successfully docked with the International Space Station (ISS) early Sunday morning.European astronaut Tim Peake used the robotic arm on the ISS to grab the Dragon...
View ArticleRosetta's comet has been changing color
Picture a comet. What color is it in your mind?If you’re like most people, you probably answered white or gray, since we're basically talking about chunks of space ice here.NASA even describes a...
View ArticleNASA has discovered 72 never-before-seen near-Earth objects
NASA has reported that they discovered 272 new near-earth-objects using a telescope which sees using infared light. Though they reported that chances of collision are low, they are still keeping a...
View ArticleSpaceX is planning to reuse the rocket it just landed on a barge in the ocean...
On April 8, SpaceX made history, landing its Falcon 9 rocket on a lonely barge in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. After three failed attempts, the landing marks SpaceX’s first successful attempt at...
View ArticleStephen Hawking and a Russian billionaire are announcing a mysterious $100...
Famed astrophysicist Stephen Hawking and Russian billionaire Yuri Milner are announcing a mysterious new space exploration initiative called "Breakthrough Starshot" at 12 p.m. ET today. (Watch the...
View ArticleStephen Hawking and Russian Billionaire Yuri Milner are launching a...
Yuri Milner and Stephen Hawking are teaming up to send 100-million-mile-per-hour bots deep into space.The $100 million initiative intends to develop light-propelled nanocrafts that will get us to Alpha...
View ArticleStephen Hawking and a Russian billionaire want to send iPhone-size robots to...
Famed astrophysicist Stephen Hawking and Russian billionaire Yuri Milner just announced a $100 million initiative to explore Alpha Centauri — the second-closest star to Earth — within our...
View ArticleStephen Hawking and billionaire investor Yuri Milner want to use the 'Silicon...
In the 17th century, Johannes Kepler dreamed of sails enabling us to explore space on a solar breeze. Now, 400 years later, a $100 million initiative launched by Stephen Hawking and Russian billionaire...
View Article'When the first alien life is discovered, it will not be on a planet'
Physicist Stephen Hawking and Russian billionaire Yuri Milner are teaming up with a host of other physics and cosmology luminaries to plan a mission to Alpha Centauri, a star far beyond our own solar...
View ArticleWatch Stephen Hawking sum up exactly how humans could reach another star...
Astrophysicist Stephen Hawking discusses the newly announced StarShot program and how humans may travel outside our star system within our lifetimes.Produced by Darren Weaver. Video courtesy of...
View ArticleHere's how we might visit another star with laser-propelled robots
Famed physicist Stephen Hawking and tech billionaire Yuri Milner just announced a radical plan to send tiny, blazingly fast space ships to the nearest star system to our own, Alpha Centauri.The core...
View ArticleA Princeton astrophysicist has a brilliant theory about finding aliens
Theoretical physicist Freeman Dyson believes that if Alien life exists out there, we won't have to look far off to some distant planet to discover it, it'll probably turn up floating through the...
View ArticleThe peculiar behavior of this group of supermassive black holes could shed...
Researchers in South Africa have discovered something unusual in a distant region of space: a group of black holes that are spewing in-sync. Using the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) in India,...
View ArticleStephen Hawking just announced a radical $100 million project for...
Russian billionaire Yuri Milner and Stephen Hawking have teamed up on a $100 million project called Breakthrough Starshot that would use lasers to travel to the nearest star.Produced by Jenner Deal....
View ArticleStephen Hawking just did a Q&A and it was everything you hoped it would be
During the StarShot press conference on April 12, Stephen Hawking answered questions about interstellar travel, politics, aliens and his legacy.Produced by Darren Weaver. Video courtesy of Breakthrough...
View Article5 'facts' about Earth’s sun and moon that are absolutely false
There are any commonly held beliefs about Earth's sun and moon that simply aren't true.Produced by Zach Wasser. Original reporting by Dave Mosher.Follow TI: On FacebookJoin the conversation about this...
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